Food Matters Manitoba is seeking a Research Assistant for an internship from April 2018 to August 2018. The Research Assistant will work to support our work towards evidence-based food policy and programs in Manitoba. This internship is offered as part of Food Matters Manitoba’s Good Food Internship Program.
Internships pay $18 per hour (plus 4% vacation pay) for 20 hours per week.
1:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time
In our third of five webinars, our speakers will introduce the steps involved in forming a cooperative including deciding on its legal entity, cooperative finances, and governance and decision making.
Ro McIntyre, Red Emma’s Cafe and Bookstore
Ro has been a worker-owner at Red Emma’s Cafe & Bookstore for 4 years. Through their work at Red Emma’s they co-founded Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy (BRED), a local loan fund for worker-cooperative. BRED provides high touch technical assistance paired with non-extractive financing to help co-ops grow & thrive. Ro is currently the Educational Director at BRED and is happily spreading the good word of cooperatives in Maryland.
Annie Sullivan-Chin, A Bookkeeping Cooperative
Annie has been a worker-owner, bookkeeper, and consultant at A Bookkeeping Cooperative since 2013. She began her work with ABC as an intern with the Democracy At Work Network, helping ABC craft its cooperative bylaws and operations protocols. She is now a certified DAWN Peer Advisor, providing customized technical assistance to worker-owned and democratically-managed organizations throughout the country.
Yvonne Yen Liu, Solidarity Research Center
Yvonne is the co-founder and research director of Solidarity Research Center, a worker self-directed nonprofit that advances solidarity economies. She serves on the board of the US Solidarity Economy Network and was named the 2018 Activist-in-Residence Fellow at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Parag Rajendra Khandhar, Asian American Solidarity Economies Project
Parag is a founding principal of Gilmore Khandhar, LLC, a law firm focused on legal, policy, and advocacy tools to advance economic justice, racial equity, and social transformation. He teaches at George Washington University Law School. Parag co-founded Baltimore Activating Solidarity Economies (BASE) and the Asian American Solidarity Economies Network (AASE).
In our last of five webinars, our speakers will discuss how to incubate cooperatives as a community-based organization or worker center.
Yvonne Yen Liu, Solidarity Research Center
Yvonne is the co-founder and research director of Solidarity Research Center, a worker self-directed nonprofit that advances solidarity economies. She serves on the board of the US Solidarity Economy Network and was named the 2018 Activist-in-Residence Fellow at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Parag Rajendra Khandhar, Asian American Solidarity Economies Project
Parag is a founding principal of Gilmore Khandhar, LLC, a law firm focused on legal, policy, and advocacy tools to advance economic justice, racial equity, and social transformation. He teaches at George Washington University Law School. Parag co-founded Baltimore Activating Solidarity Economies (BASE) and the Asian American Solidarity Economies Network (AASE).
Regional Connections is seeking an Executive Director that supports our Mission and Vision and is prepared to build on our strong track record of anticipating community needs; delivering service excellence, building proactive community engagement, leading our organization through a period of growth, and helping to capitalize on new opportunities.
Regional Connections is seeking an Executive Director that supports our Mission and Vision and is prepared to build on our strong track record of anticipating community needs; delivering service excellence, building proactive community engagement, leading our organization through a period of growth, and helping to capitalize on new opportunities.
11:45am to 1:00pm
United Way Winnipeg
580 Main Street
Canadian Evaluation Society Manitoba is pleased to welcome Greg Mason, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba and PRA Inc!
The Basic Income, also known as the guaranteed annual income, has moved to centre stage again with several countries adopting the plan. Canada as been particularly active in reviewing this policy starting with the Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment – Mincome (1974 – 79) and more recently with the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (2017 - p).
Evaluating big policy initiatives presents a range of problems. Creating counterfactuals, controlling for confounders, and managing political expectations are just a few of the challenges presented by social experiments of this magnitude.
This presentation reviews what is meant by a basic income, the nature of the intervention, and the evaluation designs needed to assess the net impact on poverty and other outcomes. Of importance is that the goals of the basic income have broadened since the late seventies, creating more complexity for evaluators.
In addition to the scientific issues underlying the basic income, inevitable political interests create challenges for the implementation and evaluation of such large-scale policies.
Intended Audience: students, evaluation professionals, policy analysts, and anyone interested in effective poverty reduction programs
